Ya Basta!

My wife & I have just returned from a month-long trip through southern Mexico, Guatemala and Belize. As usual it was less a vacation than a La Ruta Maya Technicolor obstacle course filled with moments of both euphoria and deep sadness.

On the bright side, the Zapatistas (EZLN) have established six autonomous zones, where the Mexican government is busy building new power lines, schools, sewage and water systems. Despite having fired only a few shots during their 1994 siege of five Chiapas municipalities in response to the implementation of NAFTA, the EZLN’s well-articulated and cogent critique of neo-liberal international capitalism has paid real dividends.

Their message resonated with the entire world, as they retreated back into the Lacondon jungle. After the massacre at Ocosingo by the Mexican military left over 80 dead, global public opinion solidified behind the mostly indigenous rebels, forcing the passage of the San Andreas Accords.

On the other hand the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (UNRG), which came into being after the CIA coup against nationalist Jacobo Arbenz Guzman in 1954 on behalf of United Fruit (now Chiquita), operated in the northern Guatemala highlands for four decades, fighting a protracted guerilla war against the infamous “seven families” who own over 80 % of the country’s arable land.

In 1996 the largely Mayan rebels signed a peace accord with the Guatemalan government. Yet twenty years later, the same oligarchy remains firmly in place while most Guatemaltecos seem more impoverished than ever. President Otto Perez Molina is a graduate of the US death squad incubator School of the Americas, served in the infamously brutal Israeli-trained Kaibiles and was Director of Military Intelligence. He also controls the country’s largest brewery – Gallo.

Paralleling the grinding poverty and huge income disparity has been severe pollution of Guatemala’s formerly pristine lakes and rivers. Even Lago Atitlan, once a paradise of Kachikel and Tzutzil tribes and a few Western hippies, is now so contaminated that the fish are not eaten.

But there are rumblings anew in Guatemala. The Vice-President was forced out on corruption charges while we were there, protests are mounting around a “manifestation” movement which aims its demands squarely at the oligarchs and Volcan Fuego is rumbling. With 38% of Guatemalans under the age of 14, something has got to give.

Belize remains a drugs transshipment hub for the British Crown. Chinese Triad families, loyal to the Crown via their Freemason Opium War history, own most of the businesses along with a smattering of equally crooked Brahmins from East India. Expatriates continue to buy land, Mennonites produce most of the food and the Maya, Creole and Garifuna do the work and barely make ends meet.

The government has received Petro Caribe funds from Venezuela, an initiative to help the region begun by the late President Hugo Chavez, but the money is often squandered amongst the corrupt drug gang that seems to run Belize, which until 1981 was known as British Honduras. Queen Elizabeth is depicted on all denominations of the Belize Dollar.

We began our loop from Cancun, so returned to Mexico via Chetumal. People in the Yucatan seem better off than before, but the environmental crisis has not spared the Mayan Riviera. The beaches all the way from Cancun down to Tulum were being overtaken by seaweed after years of raw sewage being pumped into the Caribbean.

We met some inspiring people along the way, experienced excellent cuisine and were blessed to be amongst the wonderful Mayan people for a month. But the poverty, corruption and environmental destruction we witnessed will linger in our hearts and minds and cannot help but propel us back into battle here in our home in the belly of the beast.

7 responses to “Ya Basta!”

Dean: yours intresting report. Let´s hope many more Americans experience latinamerican true “liberal slavery” under banking controlled masonic dictatorships. Pollution and contamination it´s just the byproduct
freemasonry corrupted officials under strict orders to not provide infrastructure as designed to depopulate the continent.
I hope you can travel to Argentina,, now with a jewish economy minister and perhaps, next year with a full liberal judeomasonic new government.
Your accounts always shed some light on this region as it does from the rest of the World.

Poor white trash? Hatred? …., Really!?!?
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And do you know what “profits” mean? With who’s frustration?
The people have the inalienable right to be frustrated.
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How do us Trumpsters show hate?
It’s the other side that shows all of the hate. Traffic jam in the AZ desert, fighting, intimidating, you name it. Coordinated ‘hit’, since police did nothing.
Yes, I did drop my jaw on that one. In the desert. You could feel the negative reaction from the American people. Anti’s just convinced themselves that they were on the wrong side, after that. Getting smaller, and smaller.
Mr. Trump is at 56%, right now. Bernie’s people will be coming over soon, then people like you will be a minority.
We Trump people are NOW happy campers.
WE ARE THE PEACEFUL, LOVING PEOPLE. Obviously, not you.

And I project 70-80% of the people will be behind him after your “white trash” attitude pulls some more stupid stunts, only to piss off the people more.
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You may want to come, see the light also.
Peace.
Trump 2016

The reason the CIA is also known as “the company” because it is being secretly run by the largest company on the planet – the Vatican and the Vatican is heavily invested in many other companies. It has a long history of enforcing company interests in Latin America and elsewhere. Allen Dulles owned many shares of United Fruit Company and talked before a Council on Foreign Relations meeting about the necessity of neutralizing the government Jacobo Arbenz Guzman in Guatemala because the land reform program and minimum wage law he passed there there was causing United Fruit Company to make less money. This was before he was appointed the Director of Central Intelligence. On becoming DCI, he launched a covert war against Guatemala. All this and much more is documented in “CIA: Crime Incorporated of America”: http://www.amazon.com/CIA-Incorporated-Herbert-Dorsey-III/dp/1478757930

You left out a major detail, massive petroleum discoveries in Chiapas is what fomented the rebellion and formation of the Zapatistas. Big oil does not want Mexican nationalized oil to hit the markets. I remember Comdt. Marcos clearly speaking Spanish with a Nicaraguan accent. Many Mexicans I knew at the time didn’t notice it until I pointed it to them.